You know where this leads, don't you, Americans?
"Bill would aid children with mental illness
Top House and Senate lawmakers are backing a bill to encourage the early identification of mental illness in children. The bill would provide schools and early education settings with tools to help students with mental illness. The bill is also designed to reduce the number of children in institutional settings and improve insurance protections for families. House Speaker Salvatore DiMasi and Senate President Therese Murray are supporting the measure and are planning to highlight the bill during a news conference today at the State House (AP)."
So CUI BONO, readers?
Here's a clue:
"As I have said, the government does not own you -- and neither does it own your children. It is bad enough that some parents find themselves forced to pay for an education they not only will not use for their children, but whose content they deeply oppose from a philosophical or religious point of view. (I've sometimes wondered why those who would never dream of forcibly taking people's money to pay to support a religious belief they do not share have no hesitation at all in taking their money to support an educational philosophy they do not share.) It is even worse that in some cases they have to maneuver a legal minefield in order to provide their children with the kind of education they want.
One could write a lengthy book on the ways in which government intrudes upon the legitimate rights of the family, but consider this example, which is all the more interesting for having been ignored in the media. In 2004, a presidential initiative called the New Freedom Commission on Mental Health issued a report calling for forced mental health screening for all American children, beginning in preschool. Although no such program has begun at the federal level, grants have already been sent out to establish pilot programs in localities across the country in conformity with the New Freedom report. I think we know what that means.
Before considering just how outrageous this proposal is, let us consider the obvious beneficiary of such a program: the pharmaceutical industry.
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Clear now?
